A Bowie knife is a kind of knife designed by Colonel James Bowie. This knife is easily recognizable by its shape. It is also very popular for its use as a weapon or as a tool for camping, hunting or fishing.
The Bowie knife has been improved several times by Jim Bowie. A knife has a blade at least 15 cm long, some knives have a blade of 30 cm.
The shape and style of the blade allows the Bowie knife to be a weapon but also a suitable tool for camping or hunting. This knife was designed to be used both as a weapon and as a hunting tool.
Jim Bowie stands out. His physical and moral courage is legendary. Nine years earlier, during an argument, hit by a bullet, he did not have time to unfold his pocket knife:during his convalescence, his brother brought him a hunting knife, forged several years earlier in an old file. The blade is twenty-three centimeters long, four wide, and a guard separates it from the hilt. With it, worn in a belt sheath, Jim will be able to defend himself in all circumstances.
Bowie will have the opportunity to use it a few months later, during a duel involving one of his friends. Although the fighters reconcile before the fight, a fight breaks out between spectators! Half stunned, a lung and a thigh crossed by bullets, hit by several sword strokes, Bowie kills his opponent with a thrust in the heart of his large knife. This is the only known time Bowie uses it to kill, although he wears it until his death, but the legend of the "Bowie Knife" was born. That of James Bowie was born at the same time:what man, struck by so many blows, would still have the aggressiveness to fight and triumph over his opponent? Bowie is a born leader:during the siege of Bexar, near Mission Concepcion, surrounded with 92 men, he cold-bloodedly uses his defensive position to push back a Mexican troop five times larger and take a cannon from them. /P>
This kind of knife is often used in fiction:
* A Bowie knife is used to kill Dracula in the book and many film adaptations.
* In Back to the Future 3, Martin MacFly was murdered with a Bowie knife.
* Crocodile Dundee always wears one.
* In the movie Happy Tree Friends, Flippy uses a Bowie knife to commit his murders.
* The knife appears in the movie Scream.
* The Bowie Knife is Gene's favorite weapon in Metal Gear Solid:Portable Ops on PSP.
* In the Evangelion animated series, Evas can use a knife called the Progressive Knife, which resembles a Bowie knife.
* The Bowie knife is the edged weapon in the Counter-Strike game.